When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. It’s so hard to make a movie period, let alone one that features as much diversity as this film. It is fucking hard to get the money, and if it’s based on a musician, to get the clearance together. It’s so fucking hard to make a black biopic. During an interview with The Breakfast Club earlier in June, All Eyez on Me co-producer LT Hutton alleged one of John Singleton’s drafts for the biopic included a scene of Tupac Shakur being. I wanted to capture this dynamic that Jada and Pac had, which was a very specific, fun, and loving dynamic.”Īs for Singleton, Graham said, “I know he hadn’t seen it at the time he made those comments. ![]() We also wanted to bring some parallels to what I was personally going through, which is pain and the feeling of losing someone. I wanted to embody her and show what made her tick. “We talked about the importance of not creating a caricature, of not just impersonating Jada Pinkett,” Graham said. ![]() In an interview with Vanity Fair, Graham defended the film, her Pinkett portrayal as well as Singleton’s claims that producers “fucked up” the biopic. There were already a slew of personnel issues surrounding the biopic’s production, like initial director John Singleton exiting prematurely (slamming the “fools” in charge when he left) to reports of forced deadlines. ![]() All Eyez on Me received sub-par reviews upon its release Friday.
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